Already gone over its asking price, at a current offer of €225,000 is the super-smart extended three-bed semi 40, Pynes Valley, in Cork’s Ballyvolane suburb.

A man who got involved in a street fight outside a house party in Ballyvolane, Cork City, in the early hours of the morning was yesterday sentenced to four months in jail.

AND they’re off. The first new homes launch of 2005 around Cork city is a batch of just under 100 homes at Ashmount Court, Silversprings.